Trial will weigh whether Muslim must remove veil for license photo

AZCentral.com/Orlando Sentinel ^ | 6.26.02

[mhking]

ORLANDO, Fla. - A Muslim woman from Winter Park, Fla., is being "hypersensitive" because she refuses to show her full face for a drivers license picture and should be required to remove her veil for the photograph, a state attorney said in a recent court brief.

[mhking]

I've heard of not liking your DL photo, but damn!

[Pearls Before Swine]

She doesn't have to have a license. And, there's always fingerprints!

[SJackson]

In addition, Marks and the ACLU said the state is misinterpreting driver's license statutes and its arguments are misleading because the state has never banned veiled drivers.

Perhaps they should consider banning veiled drivers.

[RightWhale]

Remove gloves for fingerprinting? That's probably against somebody's religion.

[Digger]

Driver license are a PRIVLEDGE not a right. BOARDERS, LANGUAGE,CULTURE - BOARDERS, LANGUAGE, CULTURE - BOARDERS, LANGUAGE, CULTURE.

[Maceman]

IF she gets to wear a mask because she is a Muslim, then I want to be able to wear one too when I get my DL photo. Otherwise it is outright discrimination against non-Muslims.

P.S. If I were Muslim I would bve too embarrassed to show my face in public too.

[JMJ333]

Funny part of this story is that this crazy person is an American white woman. She converted. I think the world is standing on end...

[TidalBore]

Being allowed to drive in this country is a privilege and not a right... so what's the big deal? None compliance with the rules means privilege gets revoked. Another frivilous law suit like the Pledge being unconstitutional. What the Hell is happening to this country????

[contessa machiaveli]

when in rome.....if she refuses to follow the laws of our government she may leave or choose not to drive.

[inflorida]

Here's the picture

[Nea Wood]

I demand the right to use Cindy Crawford's face instead of mine on my driver's license photo.

[maestro]

Yup!!

Also,.........in their coming profile index:
ALL armpits must be 'inked' and 'blotted'............,...for the 'record'.

[fishtank]

borders not boarders

[Xphantasos]

BTTT

[Grut]

...the state also says driving is a privilege, not a right.

Holding a state-issued driver's license is a privilege controlled by the state; but driving, as an important means for implementing the First Amendment's right to peaceably assemble, is arguably a right.

In other words, it can be contended that while the state can refuse to issue someone a license, it cannot then forbid him or her to drive.

Any Freeper lawyers care to comment?

[PoisedWoman]

I don't even want her driving with that thing on. She has NO peripheral vision and is a clear danger to herself and others.

[browardchad]

What this case hasn't touched on is the safety issue. (Don't we love to legislate on that in this country?) How can someone wearing such restrictive head cover have sufficient peripheral vision to drive safely?

She is a road safety menace (among other things).

[Alouette]

Freeman's challenge rests on her deeply held beliefs that she should not show her face to strangers or men outside her family. Her veil, called a niqab, conceals all of her face except her eyes.

I work in a city with a large Muslim population, and most of the women that I see in the street and at the mall don't cover their faces, they wear large head scarves like this:

Any American woman who converts to Islam and then proceeds to layer herself with additional coverings that native Muslims apparently can do without, has to be butt ugly in addition to having too many bad hair days.

[browardchad]

Same thought, one minute apart. Mind meld?

[ncpastor]

Then she shouldn't drive. Period.